Jastrow: קִיסָּם

קִיסָּם m. (קָסַם) chip, fragment. Snh. 64ᵃ כל … אפי׳ ק׳ whatever people make their ruler (worship), be it a stone, or a piece of wood, v. מוֹלֶךְ; Y. ib. VII, 25ᶜ top. Tosef. Bets. III, 18 ק׳ לחצות וכ׳ a chip with which to pick his teeth. B. Bath. 15ᵇ ‘a generation which judges its judges’, אומר לו טול ק׳ מבין עיניך וכ׳ (Ms. O. קוצא thorn; Ms. H. ק׳ מבין שיניך) when he says to a person, take the chip out of thy eye (teeth), he answers, take the beam &c.; Arakh. 16ᵇ (Var. שיניך); a. fr.—Pl. קִיסְּמִים, קִיסְּמִין. Sabb. VI, 6 (65ᵃ) בק׳ שבאזניהם (Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 70 cites קוס׳; in Rashi a. Bart. קִסְּמִ׳) with chips in their ears (to prevent the growing up of the perforations); Y. ib. VI, 8ᶜ אבל לא בק׳ וכ׳ but they must not (go out on the Sabbath) with chips &c.; a. e.